Jack Randall Crawford (1878–1968) was an author of novels (many unpublished), plays, and literary criticism and a professor of English at Yale University; he is perhaps best known for his 1922 autobiographical novel I Walked in Arden and his 1928 nonfiction What to Read in English Literature.[1]
Biography
editCrawford received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1901.[2] He became an instructor in English at Yale University and also Director of Dramatics at Dartmouth College.[3] He was a professor of English at Yale University from 1909-1946 and then professor emeritus from 1946 until his death in 1968. In addition to his novels, plays, and literary criticism, he wrote an autobiography and edited several of Shakespeare's plays for Yale University Press.[4]
Nonfiction
edit- with Mary Porter Beegle: Beegle, Mary Porter; Crawford, Jack Randall (1916). Community drama and pageantry.
- What to read in English literature. 1928.
Novels
edit- I walked in Arden. Knopf. 1922.
Plays
edit- Lovely Peggy: a play in three acts based on the love romance of Margaret Woffington and David Garrick. Yale university press. 1911.
- Robin of Sherwood: a comedy in three acts and four scenes. Yale university press. 1912.
References
edit- ^ Holahan, David (1 October 2012). "A stranger's unexpected gift taps memories". Hartford Courant.
- ^ Jack Randall Crawford Letters to Mason A. Stone (C1322), Princeton University
- ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly. Vol. 15. 1914. p. 534.
- ^ Yale Finding Aid Database : Guide to the Jack Randall Crawford Papers, Yale U. Library
External links
edit- Works by Jack Randall Crawford at Project Gutenberg
- I Walked in Arden at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Jack Randall Crawford at the Internet Archive
- Works by Jack Randall Crawford at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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